A delegation of the young people from Small Island Developing States who have taken part in UNESCO's Youth Visioning event at SIDS will present their Declaration to the press. This declaration will be presented to the plenary session of the conference at 12.45pm .

Mr Anwarul K. Chowdhury, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States and Secretary-General of the International Meeting for the Sustainable Development of SIDS, and Honourable Rajesh Anand Bhagwan, M.P, Minister of Environment and National Development Unit on the opening of the International Meeting.